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b ntiques and collectibles eorgia Caraway
With Christmas fast approaching, and gift giving (and receiving) on the minds of many collectors, I thought I would recap the newly released Top 10 collectibles categories as sold on eBay
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5. Baseball Cards,
6. Dolls and Action Figures,
7. Antiques
8. Signage, 9 Fine Art
10 Stamps
Christmas greetings cards are becoming more popular as a collectible category They may come in the form of a postcard greeting or as a multi-fold greeting card Henry Cole is credited with being the originator of the try In 1843, he commissioned an Calcott Horsley, to design a card d in an envelope to friends, ess associates Queen Victoria, e holiday and special-occasion in and the United States Louis oremost greeting card maker in ntroduced the Christmas card in ny manufactured nearly 5 million ch year
John C Hall and his brothers opened the first Hallmark card shop in Kansas City in 1914 He predicted that sending cards would become a social custom conveying that the sender cares about the recipient. Even in light of the advent of email cards, more than half of the first-class mail sent in the United States is still greeting cards.
Several books about greeting cards have been published: The Very Best from Hallmark: Greeting Cards through the Years (Abrams, 1988), The Romance of Greeting Cards (Chase, 1971), The History of the Christmas Card (Buday, 1954), and Greeting Card Design (Fink, 1992)
My friends have become used to receiving greetings cards from me from the 1940s and 50s with slightly yellowed envelopes A few years ago a friend of mine who had shopped one of my garage sales and
